Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1931 — Page 8

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RECORD IS SET BY KAYE DON IN SPEED BOAT Mark of 103.49 Miles an Hour Is Established to Shatter Gar Wood Claim. By United Brett BUENOS AIRES, April 3—Kaye Don, English speed driver who set anew world record for motor boats In a dash down the Parana river Thursxlay, told the United Press 1 before his departure for London today that he would “try again’’ should his present mark of 103.49 miles an hour be shattered. "I believe Miss England II is unbeatable at present,” said Don,

prior to embarking on the Avelona Star. “I am quite willing to make another attempt should Gar Wood (the former record holder) break my record.’’ The new record was set on the upper stretches of the Parana river, which had been

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prepared carefully for the tests, in connection with the British empire trade exhibition here. Five trial runs over the measured mile were i necessary before the famous racing craft was brought to its top sped. Don took advantage of unique arrangements made for transmitting news dispatches from the isolated river district—which was two hours from a telephone line—to a telegraph office. A combination of motor boat and carrier pigeon service had been arranged to transmit the news of the speed tests, and Don asked the United Press correspondent to transmit the official time of the fastest trial run to London, in his behalf. The former world record was 102.256 miles an hour, set by Gar Wood recently In Florida

‘ROCK'S’ DEATH ‘GETS’ HEADLINE SHOUTER He Has Yelled “Extra" on Some Big Stories, but This One Hurt. A tribute to a great man! They make ’em pretty calloused In a newspaper plant, from the city editor down to newsboys brawling in an alley while awaiting the next edition. But today at a desk in Tine Times’ city room one of the city’s oldest headline shouters paused. “I was shoutin’ extras when McKinley was assassinated, when Harry Thaw shot Stanford White, and ever since, but the only time I ever yelled an extra that got me was Tuesday,’’ he said. “Every' time I bawled the name of Rockne it hurt.” PREPARE EASTER EGGS Thousands Painted to Be Used in Children’s Programs. Thousands of eggs today were being transformed into brilliantly colored objects in preparation for the annual egg hunts Saturday and Sunday in various sections of the city. Program includes hunts at Fall creek. Riverside and Municipal Gardens at 2 Saturday. Hunts at other parks will be Sunday, Rhodius at 2, Garfield at 2:30 and Christian, Brookstde and Douglas parks at 3. The hunts will be conducted by various civic organizations in the several communities. WORKERS GET PAY HIKE Wall Street Firm Increases Salaries of Employes 12*£ Per Cent. By l niteJ I'rrss NEW YORK* April 3.—Employes of M. J. Meehan & Cos., Wall Street brokerage firm, discovered an increase in their pay envelopes amounting to 12 Vi per cent this week. The “increase” actually brought up the employers’ salaries to normal scale, and was considered as an indication that the Meehan firm visualizes good business ahead.

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New Invention Bar to Windy Dinner Speakers

Improved Garrote Chokes Bore When Clock Gets in Work. The glue-footed after-dinner speaker who treats watches with ! contempt today found science of the i nation aligned against him. In fact, members of American Chemical society attending their eighty-first annual meeting here are so much his enemy that one of their number, C. M. Hoke, of New York City, industrial chemist, announced the invention of an improvised garrote for the malefactors. “At the beginning of the program the chairman of the meeting will insert the speaker in the rope of the garrote. set an interval-timing clock a certain number of minutes limited for the address, and say ‘Go,’ ” Hoke explained. Clock Stops Talk “When the clock goes off,’ Hoke added, "the windlass in the rear will be activated, the rope will tighten, and if the speaker has not by this time removed himself, the problem will be automatically solved when the speaker’s time by the clock is up. ’’As soon as my patent is granted I intend to assign it to the American Chemical society. Sales to the United States senate alone will carry the overhead for the first year and the society need have no fear of debts or deficits. Luncheon Club Boon “Church associations and especially luncheon clubs will find it worthwhile as an invention. I don’t believe the Anti-Saloon League would be interested,” Hoke said. Other chemists attending the convention exclaimed at report of the invention, “But who’s this C. M. Hoke, the inventor?” A check revealed that C. M. Hoke is Miss Calm Hoke, vice-president of Hoke, Inc., of New York City, industrial chemist and one of the fey. authorities in the nation on platinum and the platinum group of metals.

GANGSTER STORY TO OPEN AT PALACE “Dance Fools, Dance” With Joan Crawford Shows Up Gang Life in Chicago and That Vicinity, GANGSTER'S bullets mix with high society in “Dance Fools, Dance,” Joan Crawford’s new starring vehicle, which opens Saturday at the Palace theater. ( Joan’s achievement as a dramatic actress in her recent films is overshadowed by her vivid portrayal in this sensational Chicago gangster story that penetrates deep into the heart of the underworld and finds in its core a drama thrilling and tragic. Joan plays the part of a madcap society debutante who turns to newspaper work after falling mto financial and romantic reverses. Like her role in “Paid,” Joan plays a straight dramatic part although she enlivens it with festive moments

at once reminiscent of “Our Dancing Daughters,” and its more recent companions, maidenly and marital. Her dance scenes show the Joan of old but her potent emotionalism in the pulp of the plot are even more revealing in showing the depths of her human understanding of drama and tragedy. Harry Beaumong, who brought Joan to stardom, again directs her in the daring new talkie and has done ample justice to the assignment given him by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. As usual, he has shown a lavishness in his whoopee scenes and the gay midnight swimming party when the young folk jump overboard from the yacht exceed whatever glitter and glamour he has conceived before. That dashing newcomer, Lester Vail, plays opposite Joan as the chap who took her love “on approval,” but decided in the end to keep it. Vail is a personable young man and lends much to the heart interest sustainment, a difficult task in view of the swift happenings. Cliff Edwards, as the newspaper reporter, proves a surprise, playing a straight dramatic role with out any sign of a ukelele. He brings a punch into the film that will strike you under the heart with his merciless killing at the hands of gangsters. Clark Gable, as the gangster chieftain, gives an excellent performance as the racketeer, and William Bakew’ell does the work of his career as Joan’s weakling brother, who becomes enmeshed in

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BRITISH RUMOR STIRS ILS. NAVY Charge in English Policy Would Alter Treaty. By United Brest WASHINGTON, April 3 Reports of a fundamental change in British naval policy which would have vastly altered the course of the London naval conference if the British admiralty had acted sooner were stirring up acute interest today in American naval circles. Usually well informed British sources assert the British admiralty •has decided to abandon the 10,000ton, eight-inch gun cruiser—the socalled Washington treaty type craft.

burlesque at the Mutual, Maty Hrynes at the Lyric. th? murderous underworld activities. Others who offer outstanding performances are William Holden, Earl Foxe, Purnell B. Pratt, Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moorehead, Joan Marsh and Russell Hopton. Joan is magnificent in a bewildering array of costumes and it is perhaps unnecessary to remark that her dance number will bring demands for encores. it tt u Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Skippy” at the Circle, “The Man of the World” at the Indiana, “Doctor’s Wifes” at the Apollo, double movie bill at the Ohio, “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath” at the Palace, burlesque at the Colonial, Auto Kills Peddler By United Press FRANKLIN, Ind., April 3.—Authorities sought details today from Robert Tunget, 18, and James Harmon, 25, both of Indianapolis, concerning an automobile accident in which Perry Garrett, Louisville (Ky.) peddler, was killed, and Edward Tunget, 34, Indianapolis, Robert's uncle, injured. ★ Safety for Savings Fletcher American NATIONAL BANK 4Soirtheat Cor. of Market frwwffruh % ON SAVINGS

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SLAYS MOTHER WHO ASKS HIM TO GET A JOB Youth, 29, Confesses Strangling of Woman With Clothesline. By United Press NEW YORK, April 3.—A 54-year-o!d mother was dead today because she had asked her son, Joseph Por?elt, 29, to attempt to find employment. He admitted, police said, knocking the 100-pound woman down. and strangling her with a clothesline. Porzelt had been out of work for nearly a year. His father, Harry, 55, who has been employed steadily as a cashier, awakened his son before going to work, gave him $2 and said: “Now, Joe, really try to get a job today.” As soon as the father left Porzelt returned to bed and did not arise until 11. He ate a hearty breakfast his mother had prepared for him and departed. But instead of seeking work, he

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went to a nearby speakeasy. When he had exhausted the $2 he returned home, presumably to get more money. Three hours later he staggered into a police station and told Lieutenant John Sullivan: “I killed my mother. She kept nagging me to go to work.” TIRE~EXPLODES: MAN TREATED FOR INJURY Taxi Driver Uses Too Much Air and Is Knocked “Out.” What's an extra hundred pounds of air in an auto tire? If you ask Frank Stewart, 23, of 263 South Keystone avenue, taxi driver, he'll tell you it's bad. Driving to a filling station at Fast and New* York streets, Stewart inflated a tire on his cab. The automatic pump gauge showed 140 pounds when the tire exploded. He was taken to city hospital, after he regained consciousness, to have debris washed from his eyes. TEACH BUND TO - COOK Cuts, Barns Rarest of Accidents at Junior League School. By United Press MEMPHIS, April 3.—The Memphis Junior League maintains a weekly cooking school for the V .nd where the rarest of accidents are cuts and burns.

10 MILLION IN EUROPE IDLE i LOOK TO U. S, Vast Army of Jobless Is Cheered by Reports of Uptrend in America. LONDON, April 3.—Spring finds more than 10,000.000 workers idle in Europe, and uncertainty stifling industrial enterprise in almost every European country. Signs of the normal springtime boom have failed to appear so far. Production in some of the leading irdustries of the great manufacturing countries, in fact, has fallen lower than in the dull winter months. Scandinavian countries alone have shewn indications of shaking off economic lethargy. Europe finds her brightest hope this spring in reports that con- ; cations are improving in the United States. A few years ago such reports might have aroused only jealous^’. Today they are welcomed, for! Europe feels that American industry i

must be the pace-maker for the rest of the world. Information gathered by the international labor office of the League of Nations and various business houses indicates it may be many months before industry will

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speed up enough to absorb an appreciable number of the unemployed. According to the treasury department, the President of the United States receives his sai&x, cireck semi-monthly. He receives a check for $3,125. signed by the treasurer of the United States.